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If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.

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Roger Ebert
Age: 70 †
Born: 1942
Born: June 18
Died: 2013
Died: April 4
Film Critic
Journalist
Presenter
Reporter
Screenwriter
Writer
Urbana
Illinois
Roger Joseph Ebert
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I was instructed long ago by a wise editor, If you understand something you can explain it so that almost anyone can understand it. If you don't, you won't be able to understand your own explanation. That is why 90% of academic film theory is bullshit. Jargon is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.
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Movies are like a machine that generates empathy.
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The layout was griping, the glide is awesome. Two ten-inch fins up, way up.
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It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old.
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While I am usually in despair when a movie abandons its plot for a third act given over entirely to action, I have no problem with the way Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ends, because it has been pointing toward this ending, hinting about it, preparing us for it, all the way through. What a glorious movie.
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Occasionally an unsuspecting innocent will stumble into a movie like this and send me an anguished postcard, asking how I could possibly give a favorable review to such trash. My stock response is Ebert's Law, which reads: A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.
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Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.
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I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I'm stuck with them.
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A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.
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But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.
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We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.
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I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.
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We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls.
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The Academy is paranoid about its image.
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If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't.
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We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.
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If there's anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it's an incompetent stupid action comedy. It's not so bad it's good. It's so bad it's nothing else but bad.
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All good art is about something deeper than it admits.
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It is universally agreed that Jean Renoir was one of the greatest of all directors, and he was also one of the warmest and most entertaining.
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